HyperCard became AppleScript and the Web; OpenDoc was an interesting technological experiment, but completely unnatural to use in that people expect their tools to be task oriented and not document-centric; AppleWorks is still around, if being supplanted by Pages and such. As for the meaning of common English words, I don't know about you, but I've never considered English a tidy language, nor have I ever considered myself a slave to Merriam and Webster.
I realize you're probably incapable of comprehending this, but as I responded to another clueless square earlier, Apple has never been a computer company. Really, it should have been "Apple Inc." from the start; I've always wondered what the point was of having "Computer" in its name, and now I'm left wondering what took them so long to get rid of it.
I already told you. I can't help you, an (apparently) reasonably intelligent person with unfortunate dweebish tendencies, if you refuse to approach reality with a mindset relevant to the way "the rest of us" live.
But if you're serious about trying to understand, I'd start by asking why VisiCalc is your definition of "useful work."
Yeah, you don't get it. I'm not surprised, either, on a site like Slashdot where everyone seems to have tunnel vision regarding the applicability of technology to solve everyday problems.
Wasn't it only a few months ago here that everyone here was predicting the PS3 would pummel the Wii in the market, since people so obviously prefer superior technobabble to superior fun? How'd that turn out, champ?
No, you're not trolling. You're just a literalist yahoo in a postliteral (indeed, postliterate) world.
Or perhaps it's true what they say about irony being well and truly dead. If so, it was you, with the anvil, in the corral. Congratulations on your accomplishment.
The problem with people like you is that you judge success and failure by how fucking popular they are among the market. You have your charts and your spreadsheets full of demographic numbers. This is why you will always be a follower, never a leader. Good grief. If the world were composed only of you and your ilk, life would be very fucking bleak indeed.
Why is it so hard for you linear thinkers to imagine that there exist different ways to value one's work?
Good grief, I wouldn't. What's the point of money if you lack the taste and intelligence to spend it wisely?
I mean, if you're a Ballmer or a Dell, you're clearly tolerant enough of mediocrity to be satisfied by the shit you pump out to market. And you don't need a lot of money to fill your life with shit and glitter, if that's what you're after.
Also, how old are you, twelve? Seems like you'd benefit from a little more life experience before deciding to hatch overcomplicated theories that the 99% of people who have ever left their mom's basement understand are wholly implausible. You fucking retard.
If you think anyone in this administration has the competence to perpetrate a coverup on this scale, you seriously need to pull your head from your ass.
Apple is not now, nor has it ever been, a computer company. Do you really think Jobs et al. are limited in their vision to fiddly boxes dangling keyboards and mice? No, those are just the means to a greater end.
I don't doubt the likes of Michael Dell or Steve Ballmer would disagree with this assessment. That's okay; nobody expects those dunderheads to get the point.
Let's not forget that many OS features on which the iPhone depends are practically guaranteed to make an appearance on the desktop version of OS X, whether that happens in Leopard or the next version after. Things like resolution independence, multitouch, smooth scrolling, Core Animation.
On a related note, I can't wait until OS X and apps begin expecting high-res displays and multitouch input, making the marriage of OS to hardware ever more obvious even to the squarest of squares. Finally that ought to silence the clueless pundits who still try to peg Apple as either a hardware or a software company.
Are you one of those 9/11 dorks who heckles people on the subway platform claiming that 7WTC was wired with explosives in advance and then demolished on purpose? Yeah, well, by whom? The White House? You think anyone in this administration is competent enough to plan and execute such a conspiracy? By Silverstein? The FDNY? You're a real fucktard.
BTW, a friend of mine was an IT guy in that building (7 WTC) supervising vast remodeling of several floors, for years up to and including 9/11. If there were explosives strapped to the beams, I'd think he would have seen them--oh wait, but he's part of the conspiracy, too, yeah? Again, you're a fucktard.
Hmm. Can't you just find the video file on your computer and open it in QuickTime Player or any other QuickTime-aware app? As long as your computer's authorized, iTS videos should play fine.
Agreed with you about iTunes sucking balls (damn PC users holding back development), but as far as I know, you've never been restricted to iTunes to play protected video.
No, even the Apple II was the product of a company focused on user experience. To call Apple of any era a "computer company" is like calling AT&T a telephone and telegraph company--technically accurate, but in a way revealing of a mindset that completely misses the point.
Good grief, your comment--true as it is--almost begs controversy. I can almost smell them now, the unperceptive masses falling over their keyboards right now to claim Apple never pushes the envelope, only accepts the terms dictated it by the beige suits. Their lack of vision is almost as criminal as their lack of taste.
C'mon, Apple has never been a computer company, especially not the same way as a Dell or a Gateway, or a Commodore or IBM back in the day. It's always been focused on the end-user experience, that which you so casually dismiss as the "consumer electronic lifestyle."
Apple used to cater to people who care about quality. Then came the horde of ex-Windows users, none of whom have especially good taste or discernment, all of whom would lap up whitewashed shit as eagerly as hardware carefully crafted to exacting standards. Witness the availability, now, of MacBooks with glossy screens instead of matte. Indeed, the name "MacBook" itself (rather than iBook or PowerBook) stinks of mediocrity.
Blame yourself, then, for forcing Apple's hand. You PC users lower the common denominator of Apple's customer base.
If you didn't want society as a whole to benefit from your code, why did you release it under an open source license in the first place? God almighty, you GPL whiners are the best argument going for BSD-style licenses.
Flyover country doesn't like to be reminded of the reason it's flyover, namely that it's a barren wasteland as far as goes envelope-pushing and innovation. It's no coincidence Apple's presence is strongest on the coasts, while Dell thrives in places like Texas.
It's obvious neither you nor the parent poster has ever used Xcode with Interface Builder, of which Visual Studio feels like a crippled, visionless imitation.
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HyperCard became AppleScript and the Web; OpenDoc was an interesting technological experiment, but completely unnatural to use in that people expect their tools to be task oriented and not document-centric; AppleWorks is still around, if being supplanted by Pages and such. As for the meaning of common English words, I don't know about you, but I've never considered English a tidy language, nor have I ever considered myself a slave to Merriam and Webster.
I realize you're probably incapable of comprehending this, but as I responded to another clueless square earlier, Apple has never been a computer company. Really, it should have been "Apple Inc." from the start; I've always wondered what the point was of having "Computer" in its name, and now I'm left wondering what took them so long to get rid of it.
Who, in this day and age, still thinks it's an insult (rather than a compliment) to call someone gay?
Oh yeah, PC users. Behind the times as ever, I see.
I already told you. I can't help you, an (apparently) reasonably intelligent person with unfortunate dweebish tendencies, if you refuse to approach reality with a mindset relevant to the way "the rest of us" live.
But if you're serious about trying to understand, I'd start by asking why VisiCalc is your definition of "useful work."
Yeah, you don't get it. I'm not surprised, either, on a site like Slashdot where everyone seems to have tunnel vision regarding the applicability of technology to solve everyday problems.
Wasn't it only a few months ago here that everyone here was predicting the PS3 would pummel the Wii in the market, since people so obviously prefer superior technobabble to superior fun? How'd that turn out, champ?
No, you're not trolling. You're just a literalist yahoo in a postliteral (indeed, postliterate) world.
Or perhaps it's true what they say about irony being well and truly dead. If so, it was you, with the anvil, in the corral. Congratulations on your accomplishment.
The problem with people like you is that you judge success and failure by how fucking popular they are among the market. You have your charts and your spreadsheets full of demographic numbers. This is why you will always be a follower, never a leader. Good grief. If the world were composed only of you and your ilk, life would be very fucking bleak indeed.
Why is it so hard for you linear thinkers to imagine that there exist different ways to value one's work?
Good grief, I wouldn't. What's the point of money if you lack the taste and intelligence to spend it wisely?
I mean, if you're a Ballmer or a Dell, you're clearly tolerant enough of mediocrity to be satisfied by the shit you pump out to market. And you don't need a lot of money to fill your life with shit and glitter, if that's what you're after.
Also, how old are you, twelve? Seems like you'd benefit from a little more life experience before deciding to hatch overcomplicated theories that the 99% of people who have ever left their mom's basement understand are wholly implausible. You fucking retard.
If you think anyone in this administration has the competence to perpetrate a coverup on this scale, you seriously need to pull your head from your ass.
Apple is not now, nor has it ever been, a computer company. Do you really think Jobs et al. are limited in their vision to fiddly boxes dangling keyboards and mice? No, those are just the means to a greater end.
I don't doubt the likes of Michael Dell or Steve Ballmer would disagree with this assessment. That's okay; nobody expects those dunderheads to get the point.
Let's not forget that many OS features on which the iPhone depends are practically guaranteed to make an appearance on the desktop version of OS X, whether that happens in Leopard or the next version after. Things like resolution independence, multitouch, smooth scrolling, Core Animation.
On a related note, I can't wait until OS X and apps begin expecting high-res displays and multitouch input, making the marriage of OS to hardware ever more obvious even to the squarest of squares. Finally that ought to silence the clueless pundits who still try to peg Apple as either a hardware or a software company.
Are you one of those 9/11 dorks who heckles people on the subway platform claiming that 7WTC was wired with explosives in advance and then demolished on purpose? Yeah, well, by whom? The White House? You think anyone in this administration is competent enough to plan and execute such a conspiracy? By Silverstein? The FDNY? You're a real fucktard.
BTW, a friend of mine was an IT guy in that building (7 WTC) supervising vast remodeling of several floors, for years up to and including 9/11. If there were explosives strapped to the beams, I'd think he would have seen them--oh wait, but he's part of the conspiracy, too, yeah? Again, you're a fucktard.
Hmm. Can't you just find the video file on your computer and open it in QuickTime Player or any other QuickTime-aware app? As long as your computer's authorized, iTS videos should play fine.
Agreed with you about iTunes sucking balls (damn PC users holding back development), but as far as I know, you've never been restricted to iTunes to play protected video.
No, even the Apple II was the product of a company focused on user experience. To call Apple of any era a "computer company" is like calling AT&T a telephone and telegraph company--technically accurate, but in a way revealing of a mindset that completely misses the point.
Good grief, your comment--true as it is--almost begs controversy. I can almost smell them now, the unperceptive masses falling over their keyboards right now to claim Apple never pushes the envelope, only accepts the terms dictated it by the beige suits. Their lack of vision is almost as criminal as their lack of taste.
Eh, no. If you preferred Windows to the Mac even back in Apple's darkest days, I don't know how you can lay any claim to taste.
lol @ flyover country
C'mon, Apple has never been a computer company, especially not the same way as a Dell or a Gateway, or a Commodore or IBM back in the day. It's always been focused on the end-user experience, that which you so casually dismiss as the "consumer electronic lifestyle."
What the fuck, seriously? What sort of ball-scratching square still thinks it's an insult to call someone gay?
Oh right, PC users.
Apple used to cater to people who care about quality. Then came the horde of ex-Windows users, none of whom have especially good taste or discernment, all of whom would lap up whitewashed shit as eagerly as hardware carefully crafted to exacting standards. Witness the availability, now, of MacBooks with glossy screens instead of matte. Indeed, the name "MacBook" itself (rather than iBook or PowerBook) stinks of mediocrity.
Blame yourself, then, for forcing Apple's hand. You PC users lower the common denominator of Apple's customer base.
If you didn't want society as a whole to benefit from your code, why did you release it under an open source license in the first place? God almighty, you GPL whiners are the best argument going for BSD-style licenses.
Flyover country doesn't like to be reminded of the reason it's flyover, namely that it's a barren wasteland as far as goes envelope-pushing and innovation. It's no coincidence Apple's presence is strongest on the coasts, while Dell thrives in places like Texas.
It's obvious neither you nor the parent poster has ever used Xcode with Interface Builder, of which Visual Studio feels like a crippled, visionless imitation.
You know Safari has tons of extensions too, right?